Quotes about Opposition

God often goes by contrary means, and makes the enemy do his work. He can make a straight stroke with a crooked stick.

Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God.

I think we all know how the three dark forces, the world, the flesh, and the devil, stand in opposition to the three divine persons. The flesh is ranged against the Holy Spirit as Paraclete, Satan himself against Christ Jesus as Lord, and the world against the Father as Creator.

When light walks into a room, the darkness rolls back like a scroll." He paused, his eyes narrowing. "It has to. Darkness can't stand light. And it has no counter for it.

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal opposition to poverty, racism and militarism.

I have come to hide you, " darkness told the star. "I'm too bright, " the defiant star replied.

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.

Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

the father who is the natural enemy of any son and son-in-law of whom the mother is the ally, just as after the wedding the father will be the ally of the actual son-in-law who has for mortal foe the mother of his wife.

He believes in No-God, and he worships him," said a colleague of mine of a student who was manifesting a fine atheistic ardor; and the more fervent opponents of Christian doctrine have often enough shown a temper which, psychologically considered, is indistinguishable from religious zeal.

The Spirit-filled believer will hate iniquity, injustice, and impurity; and he will militate against all of them. Because Paul hated the world, the world hated Paul. We, too, need this disposition of opposition.